The science whose primary focus is the study of drugs that affect the mind is called
__________.
A) psychopharmacology
B) psychiatry
C) pharmacology
D) psychology
The media tend to __________.
A) treat the Americans with Disabilities Act as a regulatory issue rather than a human
rights issue
B) be actively supportive of the disabled and the Americans with Disabilities Act
C) largely overlook the issues related to the Americans with Disabilities Act
D) carry a message that the Americans with Disabilities Act doesn”t go “far enough” in
forcing businesses to comply
Since 1980 the federal government has made huge cuts in money and services to central
cities, and these cuts have led to __________.
A) a fiscal crisis in urban areas
B) improved educational services
C) a booming population.
D) improvement in healthcare services
__________ is a political system in which the will of the majority prevails and
decisions are made to maximize the common good.
A) Capitalism
B) Socialism
C) Democracy
D) Plutocracy
There is a(n) __________ connection between the growth of multinational corporations
and the reduction of semi-skilled and unskilled jobs in the United States.
A) beneficial
B) irrelevant
C) direct
D) unknown
Which of the following is currently the least likely place for immigrants to settle?
A) West Coast
B) East Coast
C) Midwest
D) Southwest
Which of the following aspect(s) of education is/are discriminatory?
A) Curriculum
B) Title IX
C) Teacher pay
D) After-school programs
__________ is an act that breaks the law regardless of whether it breaks a social norm.
A) Violence
B) A crime
C) Secondary deviance
D) Racial profiling
Most Asian Americans are __________.
A) Japanese
B) Chinese
C) Korean
D) Vietnamese
This chapter takes the position that gays are a minority group subject to all of the same
pressures and persecution that all minority groups face and thus advocates that the
problem with homosexuality is that it _________.
A) is defined and labeled as deviant
B) goes against God’s will
C) defies universal cultural norms
D) is unnatural
What is the authors’ explanation for the relationships between social class and the
justice system?
A) The kinds of crimes listed by the FBI are those of the upper classes.
B) The police and others in the criminal justice system assume that upper-class people
are criminal.
C) Economic deprivation may induce people to turn to crime to ease their situations.
D) People in the lower classes have social networks that help them to avoid detection
and prosecution.
According to research cited in the text, __________ seems to enhance a student’s school
performance and __________ seems to lead to behaviors that can impair it.
A) small class sizes; isolation
B) isolation; small class sizes
C) bonding; small class sizes
D) large class sizes; rejection
__________ is an example of corporate crime.
A) Negative advertising
B) Assault
C) Price-fixing
D) Slander
When assessing the success or failure of a war effort, it is important to look down the
line. Ten years after the war in Iraq began the Sunnis and the Shiites are __________,
which is having a major __________ effect on the rest of the world.
A) at civil war; negative
B) at civil war; positive
C) at peace; negative
D) at peace; positive
“Cultural deficiency” theories explain racial subordination by positing that
__________.
A) social opportunities affect groups in different ways
B) cultural groups have lifestyles and value systems that keep them from succeeding
C) God predetermines people’s success in life
D) racial groups differ in intelligence
Whereas immigrants historically have been 90 percent European, Europeans now
constitute about __________ percent.
A) 10
B) 40
C) 50
D) 90
Residents in rural areas have __________.
A) unintentional property damage claims
B) health difficulties greater than those in metropolitan areas
C) better access to public transportation
D) more wealth than those in the suburbs
In the course of a debate, Jonathan advances the __________ theory to explain
workplace inequality by arguing that women bring different characteristics to their jobs
in the form of education and experience than men do.
A) human capital
B) dual labor market
C) interactional
D) feminist
A sexual orientation toward someone of the opposite sex, such as when a female is
attracted to a male, refers to __________.
A) homosexuality
B) heterosexuality
C) bisexuality
D) asexuality
Which of the following is generally true of elderly African Americans?
A) They have a shorter life expectancy.
B) They are more likely to live longer than Whites.
C) They are the largest proportion of the elderly.
D) They move to Harlem after retirement.
Elimination of poverty in disadvantaged urban and rural areas should include
__________.
A) eliminating federal assistance for schools and job training
B) eliminating federal assistance for infrastructure
C) new tax rebates to encourage businesses to relocate there
D) relocating rural populations to urban areas
The combination of traditional feminine and masculine characteristics refers to
__________.
A) gender segregation
B) androgyny
C) patriarchy
D) gender stratification
Recently, a city government decided it needed a new landfill so it bought the cheapest
land it could find, which happened to be next to a neighborhood which was
predominately populated by minorities. This is an example of __________.
A) individual racism
B) institutional racism
C) environmental racism
D) nativism
A __________ includes views that support equal relations between men and women.
A) patriarchy
B) capitalist patriarchy
C) feminist approach
D) gender roles approach
In West County, African Americans had a high rate of intimate partner violence and a
high rate of unemployment. After the recession ended and unemployment dropped, so
did rates of intimate partner violence because __________.
A) the government institutes partner violence awareness campaigns at unemployment
offices
B) African Americans have a culture which bonds them together during hard times and
they dealt with the issue collectively
C) the relationship between race and intimate partner violence is completely determined
by social class
D) women started working to support their husbands
In our political institutions women are underrepresented __________.
A) only in the U.S. House of Representatives
B) only in the U.S. Senate
C) only on the U.S. Supreme Court
D) at all levels
Which resources do working-class families share when wages are insufficient or
unstable?
A) Babysitting
B) Private tutors
C) Vacations
D) Museum memberships
Which of the following is a danger associated with relying on public opinion to define
social phenomena as social problems?
A) It may increase focus on intuitions as the source of social problems.
B) It may divert attention from problems within the existing social order.
C) It may overlook conditions that are detrimental to the rich.
D) It may overlook individual responsibility.
Teacher expectations __________.
A) have a minimal effect on student performance
B) have no effect on student performance
C) are shaped objectively
D) have a large effect on student performance
Sometimes violence is politically motivated and its only goal is to call attention to a
cause. This is classified as __________.
A) a Cold War
B) terrorism
C) the Bush Doctrine
D) the defense budget
The __________ defines disability in terms of some physiological impairment due to
genetics, accident, or disease.
A) psychological model
B) individual approach to disability
C) social model of disability
D) ontological model